Background
Mauderli, Walter was born on March 8, 1924 in Aarau, Switzerland. Son of Jakob and Bertha (Hofer) Mauderli. came to the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1962.
Mauderli, Walter was born on March 8, 1924 in Aarau, Switzerland. Son of Jakob and Bertha (Hofer) Mauderli. came to the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1962.
Master of Science in Physics, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 1949. Doctor of Science, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 1956.
He earned his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under the instruction of notable physicists as Nobel Laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Mauderli trained in the dosimetry of lowand high-energy radiations at the University of Zurich Medical Center with Professor Rolf Widerøe, the developer of particle accelerators. Mauderli moved to the United States in May 1956 and assumed a position at the University of Arkansas.
In 1960 he became the first medical physicist at the University of Florida ("UF") and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1988.
He was also academically affiliated with the Departments of Nuclear Engineering Sciences and Environmental Engineering Sciences. In the 1960s Mauderli was one of the founders of the medical physics graduate program at UF and radiologic technology training programs at two regional community colleges.
He supervised many graduate students in their master"s and doctoral research efforts. Active in developing the use of computers in radiology, Mauderli performed fundamental research in electronic instrumentation in the fields of therapeutic radiology and nuclear medicine.
He had 68 publications in his scientific career.
This award bearing his name is given from time to time to a Florida medical physicist who is distinguished by significant scientific or clinical research, outstanding service as an educator in medical physics, or outstanding clinical service in medical physics.
Served to 1st lieutenant Swiss Army, 1944-1956. Member American Association Physicists in Medicine, Society Nuclear Medicine, Société Helvetique des Sciences Naturelles, Society Federal Institute of Technology, Swiss Society Physics, American Medical Association, Sigma Xi.
Married Lottie Leuw, April 15, 1950. Children— Claudine, Patricia, Priska, Pamela, Walter.